ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. Thomas Atwood, Curate, St. Clement’s Danes, London, subsequently Curate and Lecturer, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Isabella, dau. of J[ohn ?] Sells, Inglesham, Wilts. ; bapt. 15 Oct 1745; in school list 1754; KS (aged 13) 1759; Capt. of the School 1764; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. Lent 1766; 3rd Wrangler and 1st Smith’s Prizeman 1769; BA 1769; Member’s (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1770; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1770, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Assistant Tutor 1773-9; FRS 13 June 1776; Copley Medal 1796; one of the patent Searchers of the Customs from 1784; Inspector of Tontine Certificates 21 Jun 1790; a distinguished mathematician to whom Pitt was indebted for services of great value; author, A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies, 1784, and other works; d. unm. Jul 1807. DNB.

ATTERBURY, OSBORNE, son of Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); b. 30 Mar 1705; adm. ; in under school list 1716 (paid no fees); KS (Capt) 1718; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 19 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 - 11 Dec 1725 (void, he having been admonished for neglect of duty and exercises 4 Sep 1725); got into financial difficulties, and went into merchant navy; 5th Mate, E. I. Maritime Service 1728; 3rd Mate 1730; ordained deacon (Winchester) 21 Dec 1744; Rector of Oxhill, Warwicks. , from 1746; m. 1st, 10 Aug 1732 (IGI) Sarah, dau. of John Ashley, Isleworth, Middlesex; m. 2nd, ; d. 3 Sep 1752.

ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, son of Osborne Atterbury (qv); b. 15 Jun 1734; adm. Jan 1749/50 (Hutton's); KS 1750; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1755, matr. 28 May 1755, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1756 - 1 Oct 1770 (void, on expiry year of grace as P Cloyne), Tutor 1764-9, Junior Censor 1763, Senior Censor 1764-8; BA 1759; MA 1763; DCL 1768; Proctor 1767; rebuked before the Chapter of Christ Church by William Markham (qv) for a speech delivered by him as Senior Censor in Christ Church Hall 12 Dec 1768 (Thompson, Christ Church, 162-3); ordained; Prebendary of Cloyne 3 Oct 1769 - Dec 1770, Precentor of Cloyne from 1 Dec 1770; various incumbencies in Co. Cork 1769-77; Vicar of Clonmel and Templerobin, Co. Cork, from 1777; m. 1st, 21 Jan 1771 Mary, sister of Robert Berkeley (qv); m. 2nd, 23 Jan 1800 Anne Arabella Ingram, widow; d. 22 Jan 1822.

ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, brother of Lewis Atterbury (qv); b. 6 Mar 1662/3; adm.; KS 1674; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, aged 17, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680-94 (void, perhaps on marriage), Tutor 1687-90; BA 1684; MA 1687; BD and DD 5 May 1701; replied to Obadiah Walker’s attack upon the Reformation 1687; assisted his pupil Hon. Charles Boyle in his defence of the genuineness of the Epistles of Phalaris against Bentley; ordained; Lecturer, St. Bride’s, London 1701; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Queen Mary, subsequently to Queen Anne; warmly opposed Erastianism and protested against the suppression of Convocation; Archdeacon of Totnes 11 Jun 1701-13; Prebendary of Exeter 6 May 1704; Dean of Carlisle 2 Oct 1704; Prolocutor of Lower House of Convocation 1710; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 28 Sep 1711-3; installed Dean of Westminster 16 Jun 1713 and consecrated Bishop of Rochester 15 Jul 1713; although he took part officially in the coronation of George I, he refused to sign the declaration of confidence in the government after the rebellion of 1715, and subsequently was in direct communication with the Jacobites; arrested and imprisoned in the Tower 24 Aug 1722, for his alleged connection with an attempt to restore the Stuarts; a bill of pains and penalties was passed through the House of Commons, and carried in the House of Lords by 83 votes to 43; deprived of all his ecclesiastical preferments 1 Jun 1723, and banished from the kingdom; visited in the Tower by some of the senior King’s Scholars before his departure; resided first at Brussels and afterwards in France as general adviser to the Old Pretender; a man of marked attainments, but cursed with an imperious and aggressive temper, and possessed of “a rare talent for fomenting discord”; his old friend George Smalridge (qv), who succeeded him both at Carlisle and at Christ Church, used to say that “Atterbury comes first and sets everything on fire, and I follow with a bucket of water”; regarded as one of the leading preachers of his day, and in Addison’s opinion was “one of the greatest geniuses of his age”; much to the annoyance of Old Westminsters, Atterbury removed the Election in 1718 from the School to the Jerusalem Chamber, and put down the Election Dinner (HMC Portland MSS, v, 561, vii, 275); owing to his insistence the new Dormitory was built on its present site, the first stone being laid 24 Apr 1722; Busby Trustee from 27 Feb 1705/6; m. c. 1695 Catherine Osborne; d. in exile in Paris 22 Feb 1731/2 and buried privately in the south aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey 12 May 1732. DNB.

ATTERBURY, CHARLES LEWIS, son of Francis Atterbury (adm. 1749/50, qv); b. 31 Mar 1778; adm. ; Min. Can. 1791; KS 1792; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1796, matr. 26 May 1796, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1796; BA 1800; MA 1803; ordained (deacon or priest ?) 24 Aug 1803 (Cloyne); Perpetual Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford 1809; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, from 5 Jun 1815; killed by the overturning of the Sovereign coach, near Leamington, 26 Jul 1823.

ATKINSON, RICHARD; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Nov 1610 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f. 326).

ATKINSON, GILBERT; b.; adm.; KS 1670; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1672, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1672, scholar 1673; BA 1675/6; MA 1679; ordained deacon (London) 31 Jul 1686; Rector of Methley, Yorks., from 6 Oct 1687; Prebendary of York from 10 May 1708; d. in a shooting accident 5 Jan 1708/9.

ATKIN (or ATKYN), THOMAS, son of Thomas Atkin, Windsor, Berks.; b.; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1680, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 17, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr. 1681; 9th in ordo 1683/4; BA 1683/4; MA 1687; Head Master, King’s School, Canterbury, from 1689; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 1699/1700, to curacy Littlebourne, Kent; lic. to m. 21 May 1694 Mary Moore, St. Andrew’s parish, Canterbury; buried Canterbury Cathedral 27 Sep 1700.

ASTON, WALTER HUTCHINSON, 8TH BARON ASTON (S), eldest son of Walter Aston, 7th Baron Aston (S), and Anne, dau. of Peter Hutchinson, Gales, Yorks.; b. 15 Sep 1769 ‘; adm. 31 May 1780; KS 1785; one of the contributors to The Trifler, 1788-9; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 - 10 Jun 1803 (void, on expiry year of grace as PC Caversham); BA 1793; MA 1796; ordained priest (York) 3 Jul 1796; Curate, Barton in Farbis, Notts., 1796; Perpetual Curate, Caversham, Oxfordshire (year of grace as from 10 Jun 1802); succ. father as 8th Baron Aston (S) 29 Jul 1805; Rector and Vicar of Hartfield, Sussex, 6 Apr 1807-15; presented petition to Crown claiming barony of Aston of Forfar (S) Feb 1819; Vicar of Tardebigg, Worcs., from 10 Oct 1821; Vicar of Tanworth, Warwickshire 12 Aug 1829 – May 1832; author, Select Psalms in Verse, 1811; m. 14 Jun 1802 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Nathan Haines DD, Vicar of St. Mary’s, Nottingham; d. 21 Jan 1845.

ASTON, HON. HENRY HERVEY, brother of John Hervey, Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); b. 5 Jan 1700/1; adm. 27 Jan 1711/2; QS (Capt. ) 1716; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1719, matr. 8 Jun 1719, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1719 - void 18 Dec 1723; Cornet, 11th Dragoons 25 Mar 1724; Capt., 11th Foot 13 May 1735; 1st Dragoon Guards 21 Dec 1738; retd. 8 Jul 1742; ordained priest (Ely) Sep 1743; Rector of Shotley, Suffolk, from 30 Sep 1743; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Oct 1743; MA 1744; assumed additional surname of Aston by private Act of Parliament (17 Geo. II, c. xxii); earned the gratitude of Dr. Johnson, who in speaking of Hervey to Boswell said “he was a vicious Man, but very kind to me : if you call a dog Hervey, I shall love it” (Boswell’s Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, i, 106); a charity sermon preached by him in May 1745 and published under his name was written by Dr. Johnson; m. 2 Mar 1730 Catherine, eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Aston, Bart.; d. 16 Nov 1748.